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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
assoil .
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Examples
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And ye shall understand, if it like you, that at mine home-coming, I came to Rome, and shewed my life to our holy father the pope, and was assoiled of all that lay in my conscience, of many a diverse grievous point; as men must needs that be in company, dwelling amongst so many a diverse folk of diverse sect and of belief, as I have been.
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Then the good man enjoined Sir Launcelot such penance as he might do and to sewe knighthood, and so assoiled him, and prayed
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But I refer you to a learned author, who hath long since assoiled this difficulty, and taught us to distinguish between a Jew en tō phanerō and a Jew en tō kruptō, of Israel according to “the flesh” and according to “the promise.”
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966
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Were shriven, assoiled, and blessed; a mass have heard,
La Chanson de Roland : Translated from the Seventh Edition of Léon Gautier L��once [Translator] Rabillon
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Then the good man enjoined Sir Launcelot such penance as he might do and to pursue knighthood, and so assoiled him, and prayed Sir Launcelot to abide with him all that day.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart
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For addressing and sending out messengers with all spéed vnto the pope, with a certificat of the whole matter as it laie, he required to be assoiled of the bond which he had vnaduisedlie entred into.
Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (5 of 12) Henrie the Second Raphael Holinshed
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Of the ladies with whose encounters with the law I propose to deal several were assoiled of the charges against them.
She Stands Accused 1935
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Then the good man enjoined Sir Launcelot such penance as he might do and to pursue knighthood, and so assoiled him, and prayed Sir Launcelot to abide with him all that day.
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The bodies of the others were gathered together in one tomb, and assoiled and blessed by the priests who accompanied the army.
National Epics Kate Milner Rabb 1901
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And this contrariety may be assoiled in this manner, that some say that he was crucified and was taken down ere he died, and for to have greater torment he was flayed and at the last beheaded.
The Golden Legend, vol. 5 1230-1298 1900
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